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The Doctor Won’t See You Now: The Unintended and Perhaps Inevitable Consequences of Medicare-for-All

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. In the fall of 2013, when cancellation letters—notices of cancelled plans—went out to approximately four […]. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Ken Perez, vice president of healthcare policy, Omnicell, Inc. But the promise was impossible to keep.

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'Healthcare platform Doctolib has conquered France — but can it take on Europe?'

Lloyd Price

Launched in 2013 by Stanislas Niox-Chateau, Doctolib has become a key component of the country’s healthcare system. 'Few startups in France can claim to have changed the way people behave in as systemic a way as Doctolib. Doctolib declined to confirm.'

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Medical Issues Are Still The #1 Contributor to Bankruptcy in the U.S.

Health Populi

a risk factor in two-thirds of bankruptcies filed between 2013 and 2016. Between 2013 and 2016, about 530,000 bankruptcies were filed among U.S. between 2013 and 2016. bankruptcy filers between 2013 and 2016. Medical costs in America are still the top contributor to personal bankruptcy in the U.S.,

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BPCI Advanced: Ensuring Successful Participation

Electronic Health Reporter

The successor to the 2013 BPCI program, BPCI Advanced is CMS’ most significant episodic payment reform proposal to date, indicating the government’s […]. The article BPCI Advanced: Ensuring Successful Participation appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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CommonWell Marks its 10th Anniversary as TEFCA Gets Underway

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Paul L Wilder, Executive Director, CommonWell Health Alliance. When it was announced on March 4, 2013, CommonWell was still just a concept, but by December of 2013, a pilot program was in place to test its interoperability services at four provider sites across Illinois, North Carolina and South Carolina.

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2013 ACPE Leape Ahead Award

Medicine and Technology

In 1994 he had an article, "Error in Medicine," published in JAMA. Lucian Leape MD is a physician and professor at Harvard School of Public Health, who has been very active in trying to improve the medical system to reduce medical error.

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Four technology and aging blog posts from October 2020

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Every day there is some new article about the impact of Covid-19 on older adults -- or another study turns up that you missed. Some recent announcements offer almost the same frothy level of investment that characterized the 2016 investor spending spree, neatly noted in a 2016 Forbes article.